Lands and Peoples of the BibleA. & C. Black, 1914 - 288 pages |
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... idea . " All the great things , " Disraeli has said , " have been done by the little nations . It is the Jordan and the Ilyssus that have civilized the modern races . " The statement is scarcely an exag- geration . The great events of ...
... idea . " All the great things , " Disraeli has said , " have been done by the little nations . It is the Jordan and the Ilyssus that have civilized the modern races . " The statement is scarcely an exag- geration . The great events of ...
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... idea of Elysium was " a place of broad rivers and streams , wherein shall go no galley with oars , neither shall gallant ship pass thereby . " The sea was the great separator , shutting off the chosen people on the west from the Gentile ...
... idea of Elysium was " a place of broad rivers and streams , wherein shall go no galley with oars , neither shall gallant ship pass thereby . " The sea was the great separator , shutting off the chosen people on the west from the Gentile ...
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... idea that most people form of the Philistines is of a race who stood for all that was evil , backward , and hopeless in the world's history , and who , in their struggle with the Israelites , represented darkness fighting against light ...
... idea that most people form of the Philistines is of a race who stood for all that was evil , backward , and hopeless in the world's history , and who , in their struggle with the Israelites , represented darkness fighting against light ...
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... ideas of the secular enmity of the two . " Thus it was that the West first met the East . It was a curious reversal of the usual circumstances of such antagonisms . We are inclined to picture the West as a thing of yesterday , new ...
... ideas of the secular enmity of the two . " Thus it was that the West first met the East . It was a curious reversal of the usual circumstances of such antagonisms . We are inclined to picture the West as a thing of yesterday , new ...
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... as cheerfully as ever . Then Lagash fell into the hands of a patesi named Urukagina , who had somehow conceived the extra- ordinary idea that government should be in the interests of the ordinary taxpayer and the poor man ,
... as cheerfully as ever . Then Lagash fell into the hands of a patesi named Urukagina , who had somehow conceived the extra- ordinary idea that government should be in the interests of the ordinary taxpayer and the poor man ,
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Page 230 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 25 - To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him : for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Page 116 - I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent...
Page 5 - Surely the isles shall wait for me. and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 46 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 92 - That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
Page 116 - I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man : and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people : and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Page 124 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet " thee at thy coming : it stirreth up the dead for * Jer. xlvii. 6, 7. " thee, even all the chief ones of the earth : it " hath raised up from their thrones all the kings
Page 35 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 41 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, And as the hasty fruit before the summer; Which when he that looketh upon it seeth, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.